What channel?
I turned it off after about 20 minutes, just wasn't feeling it.
Bonus point for the dad from Friday night dinner
Might try again another day
And the poor soldiers on the rooftops sweeping them clean. Horrifying, because you know it happened.
Yes, the first episode is quite dark but stick with it. I didn't quite appreciate how absolutely horrific this was and how close we were to an absolute global catastrophe many times worse than actually transpired.Watched about half an hour and gave up, was pretty grim. Got decent review though so might give it another go.
Edit: Don't mean grim as in its bad, just bloody depressing!
Got two episodes to watch but that is / was good news as those chaps were so braveQuality kept up right to the end, struggle to fault any of it. Nice little note at the end that the three divers who volunteered to go in to the basement and open the valves actually survived contrary to myth.
I turned it off after about 20 minutes, just wasn't feeling it.
I can't remember ever feeling so uncomfortable watching a TV show. It's brilliantly made and captures what I imagine was the feeling of the time which was horror, paranoia and confusion. The scene where the pregnant wife is comforting her husband in hospital while he lies literally melting into the bed is something that will stay with me for a while.
The series does get better as it goes on. Oddly enough the first episode is the slowest and that features the actual explosion.
Some minor gripes. Why do they all speak with English accents? Surely even asking the cast to put on generic eastern European accents would have helped with the realism. It's an odd decision in an otherwise very authentic show.
Some minor gripes. Why do they all speak with English accents? Surely even asking the cast to put on generic eastern European accents would have helped with the realism. It's an odd decision in an otherwise very authentic show.
The writer did an accompanying podcast and said that if everyone's attempting the accents there's a danger of them veering towards 'Boris and Natasha' stereotypes and then lose a lot of what they are trying to convey. To be honest I barely noticed it except for when the miner boss rocked up with his strong Scottish accent.
They said she's meant to be a composite of the hundreds who helped out including a number of women, who otherwise wouldn't have been represented at all
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